The Unique Animal: The Origin, Nature and Consequences of Human Intelligence. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Prytaneum Press, 1981
- Softcover
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0907152015.
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- Title
- The Unique Animal: The Origin, Nature and Consequences of Human Intelligence
- Author
- Davis, Don D.
- Publisher
- Prytaneum Press
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0907152015
- ISBN 13
- 9780907152019
- Item weight
- 500 grams
- Seller catalogs
- Anthropology
In what ways are humans more intelligent than other animals? Do we differ only in degree, or is our intellect different in kind from that of all the other animals? Don D. Davis proposes a controverssial new theory that we have a unique mental aability hitherto unrecognized by scientists. His theory is testable and falsifiaable
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Review
"A provocative thesis. . .defies most psychological learning theories since Watson, Thorndike and Guthrie. -- Choice, Vol. 19, page 1638
"To be sure Davis's concept of separated learning IS powerful. -- Nature, Vol. 300, 11 Nov. 1982
"To be sure Davis's concept of separated learning IS powerful. -- Nature, Vol. 300, 11 Nov. 1982
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